TV : no longer the drug of people

[Oric]

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fd20120520pb.html

[Mousehound]

TV has a lot of things wrong with it IMO. Movies are shortened, commercial breaks are too long, and too frequent, good series are canceled after one or two seasons, and stupid series run forever. Now if you want to see anything enjoyable, you are forced to watch private TV, and it costs extra money. With the dawn of the Internet, we have the new "drug" of choice for many people due to the ability to interact with it, and it's cheap for most people who can use a flat rate.

[Antropologo]

TV manufacturers made a bad bet on consumer trends when they went with the 3D TV. The cost has come down on regular flat screen TVs, so the market is saturated with them, but I don't think that having in-home 3D really resonates with most consumers. The need for special glasses is probably the biggest issue, aside from the price.

What I would be interested in getting is a 2.35:1 ratio TV. With the 16:9 flat screens, you still get letterboxing, but the superwide format would let you have a more realistic theater experience in-home.

The 3D TV idea should be shelved and not brought back until they can do those Tupac hologram things in your living room.

[Twoolf]

The seems to be an inverse relationship between the quality of the picture and the quality of the programming. We had better shows/movies in the mid 60's with a small black and white set and three channels than now with huge HD screens and 500 channels. We didn't get a color set until I was 16.

[Pablo Escobar]

Where can I find a listing of most watched shows by week and # of viewers? I'd be interested to see just how many of the top 20 I've seen.

[Antropologo]

Originally Posted by Pablo Escobar

Where can I find a listing of most watched shows by week and # of viewers? I'd be interested to see just how many of the top 20 I've seen.

Nielsen. USA today has a list: http://www.usatoday.com/life/televis...ens-charts.htm

[Kassy]

Seen some of the comedies like Two and a Half Men and Big Bang Theory, occasional snippets of NCIS and CSI.

There is only so much TV you can watch as a person.

I almost always watch the news at sometime during the day.

For entertainment i like those comedies but we get some short cycle which starts over repeatly so you're done watching soon, except they're good enough to rewatch some episodes.

Movies can be fun too but the programming is too repetative (not Star Wars again etc or all three matrix movies). They miss many historic great movies.

The only other good stuff to watch is live sports coverage (as in F1 GPs and other motorracing stuff and the occasional World or Euro soccer cup).

Day time TV is horrid: phone in to discuss your horoscope, ZAP, buy all the 10 pans now & get an oven glove for free. ZAP. MTV morphing from teen mums to MTV Made to a tour of the mansion with all so many rooms & the rides and another channel with 24-7 animal rescue. Kids cartoons i don't get at all (the Japanese fighting toys...horrible dialogue too). The acted kids series are bad too. They're all synchronized in dutch but if they're faithfull to the american original part of the ADHD epidemic is mimesis.

What i would love to have is current TV technology but enlarged access to historic archives (true a connection to the net). It would be fun to be able to watch the 8 o'clock news from the day of your birth or something like that.

Also for movies: there should be a way to watch all kind of classic movies on a streaming service. There are so many movies which never make it to TV but which would do great in such an environment. I was looking at top lists of SF movies & there are many to watch.

It would be great if you could chance the TV channel to SF theme channel and then go on to select what you fancy, like a bad 50ies UFO theme night.

There should be tons of classic stuff that you could sell again: all the important classic matches to fans of club X, country X , sport X since the beginning of time. Edited content of historic content showing a year in time or focusing on an event...think user generated documentaries from the raw content.

Years back i visited our national TV archives hunting for some footage bits for a documentary & they had so much there. I'm pretty sure it can all be converted easily.

I'm less sure of the right holders to all the classic movies but it should be a win win model opening up access to all kinds of content which is now unavailable.

Not sure how this would tie in to the modern TV landscape but any company generating content on a day to day basis should milk it more and uniting TV and the net is the way forward.

[rb.]

Originally Posted by Twoolf

The seems to be an inverse relationship between the quality of the picture and the quality of the programming. We had better shows/movies in the mid 60's with a small black and white set and three channels than now with huge HD screens and 500 channels. We didn't get a color set until I was 16.

I dunno. I watched an episode of Perry Mason the other day. Give me an episode of House, SOA, Breaking Bad, The Killing, or Mad Men any day, over the old stuff. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be able to turn on some Magnum PI, just for the nostalgia alone, but for serious attention, I'll take current production.

[Coyote]

I was just looking at the link that Antropologo posted and find it interesting that there are no news shows on any of the lists.

It's been about seven years or so since I got rid of my TV. I haven't regretted it.

I still see some TV though. 'Ellen' was on in the waiting room last time I went to the doctor's office. A buddy of mine has his TV on constantly and the last time I was over there 'Dr Oz' was on. Most of my friends are kind enough to turn the TV off when I am over.

The internet is similar to TV in it's attention grabbing abilities but the huge choice of subject matter does make it far more interesting for me.

[Pablo Escobar]

Originally Posted by Antropologo

Nielsen. USA today has a list: http://www.usatoday.com/life/televis...ens-charts.htm

I find it quite telling that they have to seperate the cable ratings from the "network" ratings..... their market share has vaporized.....